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Andrew W. Schilling's practice combines complex civil litigation, including employment and appellate litigation, with white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Mr. Schilling served for more than ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As Chief of the Civil Rights Unit of that office from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Schilling supervised and personally handled both civil and criminal civil rights cases and investigations and served as that office's chief point of contact for the Justice Department, the FBI, and the EEOC in civil rights matters.
While at the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. Schilling tried cases before juries and the bench in employment discrimination, First Amendment, bankruptcy, organized crime, civil rights, and official misconduct cases. His appellate experience includes representing the United States and its agencies in more than a dozen appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His significant matters in that office include serving as lead counsel for the United States in the enforcement and administration of the Government's civil RICO consent decree with the Teamsters Union; defending Special Master Kenneth R. Feinberg in consolidated lawsuits challenging the regulations governing the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund ("VCF"); and defending, including at trial before a three-judge panel, the constitutionality of the federal criminal laws banning the transmission of obscenity to minors over the Internet. In 2006, Mr. Schilling was awarded the Henry L. Stimson Medal by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for outstanding service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. He also received commendations by the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department for his work enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act, and by the Civil Division of the Justice Department for his work on the September 11 VCF litigation.
Mr. Schilling graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1988 and received his law degree cum laude from Fordham University School of Law in 1992, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review. After law school, Mr. Schilling clerked for the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, Mr. Schilling worked as an associate in the litigation department of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York, where he litigated product liability, intellectual property, and insurance coverage cases. Mr. Schilling has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and at New York University School of Law.
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